Jessie Bender (she/her) is a metaphysical mischief-maker and co-host of Existential Detective Stakeout. Trained in the wild art of becoming through breakdowns, breakthroughs, and bottomless cups of coffee, she specializes in decoding synchronicities and tracking the liminal. Jessie works with dreams, divination, and the strange weather patterns of the soul. She’s less interested in your five-year plan and more interested in what your shadow whispered on the way to the grocery store. When she’s not on stakeout with Macie, she’s tending altars, losing notebooks, or having existential crises in the produce aisle. 

Macie Smith (she/they) is a mystic technologist, existential detective, and co-host of Existential Detective Stakeout. Fluent in tarot, archetypes, and suspiciously accurate pattern recognition, she brings a sharp eye and a soft heart to the strange work of being alive. Macie is obsessed with the liminal—thresholds, breakdowns, reinventions—and with the clues life leaves scattered in inboxes, gut feelings, and half-forgotten dreams. Her guidance is equal parts practical and poetic, delivered with the kind of eerie precision that makes you check your birth chart. When she’s not sleuthing the sacred with Jessie, she’s probably organizing someone’s digital chaos or talking to the moon in her backyard.